It is interesting that I agree with all of their goals, getting rid of the banker elite and such. They’re just so misinformed that their energies are channeled in the wrong direction. In effect, they are useful idiots of the elite.
You’ve taken the words of my mouth… about 90% of the words I’ve ever had regarding protest groups outside of the Tea Party for the last few years. The only kinda sorta exception is those hacker groups, but my money is on them (especially Anonymous and Lulzsec) being collective pseudonyms for a variety of groups, mainly either disillusioned veterans of the pirate radio wars or hired cyber-hitmen for the Russian mob or Chinese intelligence services.
As always, Zombie delivers, and gives a fairly interesting analysis of the contradictions and various factions marching under the OWS banner. It’s like Billionaires for Bush on steroids. Also, Che and FDR make cameos.
I don’t think this is some spontaneous protest by a few economic ignoramuses. This is a predictable reactionary push against recent liberalization. Essentially, liberalization threatens incumbent elites, which is why they create a downturn to get the distressed masses to demand the statism back that protects the elites. These protesters are precisely playing into the plot of the elites.
What is this recent liberalization you speak of?
Re, Clayton;
You know, globalization. That a third of the world isn’t communist any more. And neoliberal reforms since the 1970’s. The US has been slipping in the freedom score, but most countries (heritage.org/index/ranking) have been getting more free in recent years. Also, technology has made it much easier to compete, leading to a more capitalist world.
I love how in that ReasonTV clip, at around 5:14, the real man on the street speaks the truth: it’s not gonna do shit and once the wind gets colder all the people will leave, but he’s glad to be there because the police aren’t harassing him for sleeping outside.
That RP guy from the video has serious guts to go there and support capitalism. Praise to him.
Lol.
The OP’s link now mentions Mises.org. The forums there are full of cool people though… very open minded.
That is awesome. Links directly to the Mises Daily article.
It’s actually kind of funny to see how worked up they are. It’s funny that at least some of them can recognize how dumb it makes them look, even though (as I pointed out earlier) all the other demands lists aren’t much better. Just like screaming Bob said above, this is what happens when you have a protest and don’t even really know what for.
It’s also funny because they owners of the website are in such a tough spot, since they can’t exactly delete nonsense like that without getting all sorts of backlash. “YOU’RE TRYING TO CENSOR US! YOU’RE ONE OF THEM!”